Improvement in pocket hone, strop, and oil-cup combined



F. A. KETCHUM & H. WILDE.

POCKET HOME-STRAP AND OIL-CUP COMBINED.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK A. KETOHUM AND HENRY WILDE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN POCKET HONE, STROP, AND OIL-CUP COMBINED.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,56 1, dated April17, 1877; application filed January 31, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, PFREDERICK A. KETcEUMand HENRY WILDE, of Cleveland, in the county of (Juyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented a certain new and Improved Pocket Hone, Strop, andOil-Cup Combined; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and complete description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of the same.

Figure 1 is a side view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of thesame with the cover raised. Fig. 3 is a top view of the inside.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The purpose of the above-said invention is to combine, in a convenientform and size, that may be carried in the pocket, a hone or oilstone,strop, and a vessel, wherein oil may be placed for the use of the stoneand strop, thereby combining in one the three articles aforesaid. A morefull and complete description of the invention is as follows:

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a block, which may be-of woodor other suitable material. In said block is partially sunk a hone, B,having a portion of the stone above the face thereof, as seen in Fig. 2.(J is a cover, hinged to one end of the block, as shown in Fig. 3, theinside of which is incavated for the admission of the exposed part ofthe hone on shutting down said cover.

The strop consists of a strip of leather, D, secured to the under sideof the block. In the end of the block is a chamber or hole, in which isinserted a vessel for holding oil. Said vessel is indicated by thedotted lines a, Fig. 2, closed by a stopple, E; or the chamber itselfmay be the oil-receptacle.

As aforesaid, the above-described invention is intended to be carried inthe pocket, and affords a ready and convenient means for stropping smallcutlery.

What we claim as our invention, and desire

